And that's the problem with unions. Initially they address the problem of the power imbalance between management and labor, but they eventually accrue power to themselves, siphoning off their members' productivity.
More laughable talking points, as worker productivity has done nothing but rise since the 70's, and unions are inherently invested in the profitability the business they are in.
In many industries, the union is really only be needed for finite intervals to correct an issue or set of issues and then should disband until needed again.
Unions will be needed as long as bosses and capitalists are afflicted with greed. Are you telling me that they stopped being greedy when Reagan was elected?
They just fear that after the initial benefits are realized, all the crap will start to accrue and they won't be able to get rid of them.
Crap like: higher wages, greater benefits, and the right to be fired with cause, rather than without. Oh, the horrors!
Well....if this is jury selection, and you're going to use your counselors prerogative to kick Apple's superior case, battery, 40% greater resolution, weight, SSD and thunderbolt expansion out of the pool, then...
...I'm going to do the same for Acer's GPU (base MBP only has integrated graphics), ability to have both an SSD and an HDD, DVD drive, gig-e, and yes, the price. Everyone should buy what is is they want, at the price they want, after considering the advantages and disadvantages of the options.
If what you want is a big plastic brick with a good GPU, that's peachy. But it's not like people buying MBP's aren't getting what they paid for.
And where are they? Sitting over there next to Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny? You know, two other things that don't actually exist here, despite a lot of hot air to the contrary.
FYI the 2015 Macbook Air has a TN screen with a lower resolution than your T43 from 2004.
FYI that's comparing a 13" laptop to a 15" laptop. And if you don't want the Air, get the Macbook, which is smaller than the 13" Air yet has a 2304-by-1440 resolution.
I was with you right up to that part. Apple lagged woefully behind in screens for a very long time, unless you're forgetting that the 15" MBP was 1440x900 right up to mid-2012
Not if you got it with the 1680x1050 display, which was an option starting on the 2011 models. It's not as if all PC manufacturers had jumped on 1080p at that point, so it's a wee bit of a wash.
Yes, it is heavier, and yes it isn't as well built
You kinda answered you're own Concern there.
It is half the price and twice the performance.
You're entitled to your confirmation bias, but you aren't entitled to your own set of facts. The fastest Nitro on Newegg has a 2.6 ghz i7 for $1350. The slowest 15" MacBook Pro has a 2.2 ghz i7 for $2,000. The Nitro has a much better GPU than the base Pro, but the Pro has faster PCI-E flash storage.
You want to argue it has a 16% faster CPU, and better video performance for 67% of the price, have at it. But "half the price and twice the performance" has no basis in reality.
Sure, they are well made, but a Let's Note (Toughbook in the west) is rugged. Mine claims that it can take 100kg on the lid,
No kidding, because it's a Toughbook, and you pay for what you get, and get what you pay for. The only thing that really compares to a Toughbook for commercial products is....another Toughbook.
Macs have a high TCO.
Yes, all that money spent on annual subscriptions to anti-virus software really ads up over the years.
Maintenance costs are high too, because Apple tries to force you to pay them for replacement of consumable items like batteries.
If you want a laptop with a swappable battery, buy a latptop with a swappable batter. Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head to force you to buy one with batteries soldered to the board to save space.
One other thing - Apple don't offer laptops with TPM chips. TPM is useful for Bitlocker support.
And if it doesn't, you have to jump through hoops to enable it. Apple has supported home folder encryption on any disk for 12 years, and whole disk encryption for five. True, with TPM Bitlocker can be 10-15% or so faster than FileVault - so it's a good thing that Apple uses PCI-E flash storage, which is faster than SATA.
My Acer V17 Nitro has similar specs and was a lot less money.
Not similar: the two extra pounds and what looks like a nice, plastic case, as opposed an aluminum unibody. It also doesn't say anything about having it's SSD hooked up by PCI-E. It does have a larger screen, though.
I wear shoes that weight more than the difference in weight and I drag those along all day.
Translation: Yes, I'm comparing an apple to an orange, but they're both fruit so they're still the same thing, right?
Laptops are usually worked on while on a desk or lap (hence laptop).
And how do they get back and forth from that desk at work to your lap at home? By being carried. You might not care of the laptop weighs 2 pounds or 8, but some people do.
Both the last two points are Apples fault for disabling various power CPU states and using a proprietary GPU switching solution which they do not provide a driver for leaving Windows with access only to the integrated GPU.
More like Microsoft's design choice to prioritize speed over power savings, while Apple has done the reverse.
Hmm- I just checked my order and my home PC is from August, 2007, so almost exactly 8 years old. Works just fine on Win7 64-bit, will upgrade to 10 when it gets its first service pack. I do game on it- not cutting edge, but Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Fallout NV and the like run just fine.
Would this PC be a desktop? Which are either more powerful than laptops (what the parent was talking about) for the same amount of money, or less money for similar CPU's and GPU's. In which case, I would hope so.
Apple doesn't make cheap unreliable shit, and they routinely are at the top of product reliability surveys. Now, for the hatebois who are halfway into their "don't hold it wrong" comments:
1) Better doesn't mean flawless. Apple have had to extend warranties on some of their products over the years because they were shipped with crappy parts...same as Toyota and Honda.
2) Remember the Hatorade Distortion Effect. Google Maps has had some doozies of directions, but errors in GPS software weren't an international incident until the release of Apple Maps. People have gotten the Galaxy S6 screen to shatter at pressures where the iPhone 6 merely bends, yet ShatterGazi was never a thing. And of course remember not to hold your Galaxy S5 wrong. Or the S4. Or the HTC Evo. Or the Lumia 900.....
When my girlfriend and I are watching Netflix on her machine, it's a lot easier to poke the screen where the play/pause button appears than to move the mouse pointer to that button, click it, and then move it off again so the playback controls vanish.
Even easier: the spacebar. Closer to you than the screen, and avoids gorilla arm.
You and the other five users on the planet who prefer them. Maybe you should form a user group with with four people who prefer mice with thumb balls on the side.
People don't buy apples to run windows on them. They buy apples because they cost 1.5x more, hating windows is hip, and blah blah blah blah
You've long paid similar prices for PC's compared to similar Apple products. That Apple doesn't compete in the 6 pound, $300 POS special laptop category means they don't compete in that market segment, not that their products "cost 1.5x more". To pick one example, Apple's 5k iMac costs just a little more than Dell's 27" 5k monitor, but the Mac has a computer attached to it.
from Detroit, Chicago and DC, where the imbalance of power was clearly in the opposite direction: graft and featherbedding destroying grand old industries, driving the smoldering remnants of our national productivity away to Asia.
Wait. You suggest we form unions, then repeat laughable anti-union talking points? AFL-CIO didn't pass NAFTA. Neither Longshoremen nor the Teamsters told GE to offshore their labor. AFSCME didn't tell everyone to start shopping at Wal-Mart, with their cheap crap imported from China.
Labor is labor, and Michigan is in the United States just as much as California. Detroit's economy has been driven into the shitter by corporate trade laws - so bus people from Detroit to pick garlic and tomatoes grown on surrounding farms. Or are you suggesting that farms in California abuse undocumented immigrants?
1) AC unhappy that Fox is being lampooned for dishonesty, when they 'merely' repeated something they heard from AP.
2) The venn diagram of FOX fans who defend the station and also hate Dan Rather, who reported a story partially based on questionable documents, is one nice big ball.
If Fox is blameless, than so too is Rather. If Rather deserved blame, then so too does Fox.
Actually that was an AP story and shows up on FoxNews because almost all AP stories show up there. But hey thanks for sharing your hate.
FOX is blameless because they passed on a lie, but weren't the source of the lie themselves? Make sure to tell that to Dan Rather on your way to getting over your butthurt.
People like you misrepresenting history as though Apple created all of these things is my pet peeve.
But not those who pretend innovation is another word for invention? Apple didn't invent mp3 players, smartphones or tablets. They did, however, make them not suck through innovation.
So the taxpayers, who aren't the source of the water shortage, should spend hundreds of billions to subsidize the profits of ranches and almond farmers, who are the source of the water shortage. Makes perfect fascist sense.
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More laughable talking points, as worker productivity has done nothing but rise since the 70's, and unions are inherently invested in the profitability the business they are in.
Unions will be needed as long as bosses and capitalists are afflicted with greed. Are you telling me that they stopped being greedy when Reagan was elected?
Crap like: higher wages, greater benefits, and the right to be fired with cause, rather than without. Oh, the horrors!
Well....if this is jury selection, and you're going to use your counselors prerogative to kick Apple's superior case, battery, 40% greater resolution, weight, SSD and thunderbolt expansion out of the pool, then...
...I'm going to do the same for Acer's GPU (base MBP only has integrated graphics), ability to have both an SSD and an HDD, DVD drive, gig-e, and yes, the price. Everyone should buy what is is they want, at the price they want, after considering the advantages and disadvantages of the options.
If what you want is a big plastic brick with a good GPU, that's peachy. But it's not like people buying MBP's aren't getting what they paid for.
And where are they? Sitting over there next to Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny? You know, two other things that don't actually exist here, despite a lot of hot air to the contrary.
Your logical fallacy is straw man.
FYI that's comparing a 13" laptop to a 15" laptop. And if you don't want the Air, get the Macbook, which is smaller than the 13" Air yet has a 2304-by-1440 resolution.
Not if you got it with the 1680x1050 display, which was an option starting on the 2011 models. It's not as if all PC manufacturers had jumped on 1080p at that point, so it's a wee bit of a wash.
Tell it to the reliability surveys that have put Apple as the most reliable PC manufacturer, for forever in computer terms.
Because no PC manufacturers ever have QC issues. Ever. No phone manufacturers, either.
You kinda answered you're own Concern there.
You're entitled to your confirmation bias, but you aren't entitled to your own set of facts. The fastest Nitro on Newegg has a 2.6 ghz i7 for $1350. The slowest 15" MacBook Pro has a 2.2 ghz i7 for $2,000. The Nitro has a much better GPU than the base Pro, but the Pro has faster PCI-E flash storage.
You want to argue it has a 16% faster CPU, and better video performance for 67% of the price, have at it. But "half the price and twice the performance" has no basis in reality.
No kidding, because it's a Toughbook, and you pay for what you get, and get what you pay for. The only thing that really compares to a Toughbook for commercial products is....another Toughbook.
Yes, all that money spent on annual subscriptions to anti-virus software really ads up over the years.
If you want a laptop with a swappable battery, buy a latptop with a swappable batter. Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head to force you to buy one with batteries soldered to the board to save space.
And if it doesn't, you have to jump through hoops to enable it. Apple has supported home folder encryption on any disk for 12 years, and whole disk encryption for five. True, with TPM Bitlocker can be 10-15% or so faster than FileVault - so it's a good thing that Apple uses PCI-E flash storage, which is faster than SATA.
Not similar: the two extra pounds and what looks like a nice, plastic case, as opposed an aluminum unibody. It also doesn't say anything about having it's SSD hooked up by PCI-E. It does have a larger screen, though.
Translation: Yes, I'm comparing an apple to an orange, but they're both fruit so they're still the same thing, right?
And how do they get back and forth from that desk at work to your lap at home? By being carried. You might not care of the laptop weighs 2 pounds or 8, but some people do.
Purely personal preference.
And regular PC laptops don't?
As opposed to regular PC laptops?
More like Microsoft's design choice to prioritize speed over power savings, while Apple has done the reverse.
Would this PC be a desktop? Which are either more powerful than laptops (what the parent was talking about) for the same amount of money, or less money for similar CPU's and GPU's. In which case, I would hope so.
And 2-3x less capable. You get what you pay for.
Apple doesn't make cheap unreliable shit, and they routinely are at the top of product reliability surveys. Now, for the hatebois who are halfway into their "don't hold it wrong" comments:
1) Better doesn't mean flawless. Apple have had to extend warranties on some of their products over the years because they were shipped with crappy parts...same as Toyota and Honda.
2) Remember the Hatorade Distortion Effect. Google Maps has had some doozies of directions, but errors in GPS software weren't an international incident until the release of Apple Maps. People have gotten the Galaxy S6 screen to shatter at pressures where the iPhone 6 merely bends, yet ShatterGazi was never a thing. And of course remember not to hold your Galaxy S5 wrong. Or the S4. Or the HTC Evo. Or the Lumia 900.....
Even easier: the spacebar. Closer to you than the screen, and avoids gorilla arm.
You and the other five users on the planet who prefer them. Maybe you should form a user group with with four people who prefer mice with thumb balls on the side.
You've long paid similar prices for PC's compared to similar Apple products. That Apple doesn't compete in the 6 pound, $300 POS special laptop category means they don't compete in that market segment, not that their products "cost 1.5x more". To pick one example, Apple's 5k iMac costs just a little more than Dell's 27" 5k monitor, but the Mac has a computer attached to it.
Wait. You suggest we form unions, then repeat laughable anti-union talking points? AFL-CIO didn't pass NAFTA. Neither Longshoremen nor the Teamsters told GE to offshore their labor. AFSCME didn't tell everyone to start shopping at Wal-Mart, with their cheap crap imported from China.
Labor is labor, and Michigan is in the United States just as much as California. Detroit's economy has been driven into the shitter by corporate trade laws - so bus people from Detroit to pick garlic and tomatoes grown on surrounding farms. Or are you suggesting that farms in California abuse undocumented immigrants?
Connect the dots:
1) AC unhappy that Fox is being lampooned for dishonesty, when they 'merely' repeated something they heard from AP.
2) The venn diagram of FOX fans who defend the station and also hate Dan Rather, who reported a story partially based on questionable documents, is one nice big ball.
If Fox is blameless, than so too is Rather. If Rather deserved blame, then so too does Fox.
Pick one.
Tiny word salad is tiny.
FOX is blameless because they passed on a lie, but weren't the source of the lie themselves? Make sure to tell that to Dan Rather on your way to getting over your butthurt.
But not those who pretend innovation is another word for invention? Apple didn't invent mp3 players, smartphones or tablets. They did, however, make them not suck through innovation.
So the taxpayers, who aren't the source of the water shortage, should spend hundreds of billions to subsidize the profits of ranches and almond farmers, who are the source of the water shortage. Makes perfect fascist sense.